Walter H. Annenberg — businessman; statesman; publisher; philanthropist, The Annenberg Foundation
Arthur Ashe — tennis legend; educator; social activist; organizer, Artists and Athletes Against Apartheid
Dr. Marguerite Ross Barnett — educator; political scientist; administrator; first woman and first African American president, University of Houston
Dr. Ernest Boyer Sr. — educator; scholar; president, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; U.S. Commissioner of Education; chancellor, SUNY; recipient, Charles Frankel Prize in the Humanities
Gwendolyn Brooks — educator; poet laureate, Illinois; first African American Pulitzer Prize winner, poetry; 1994 Jefferson Lecturer, National Endowment for the Humanities, the highest award in the humanities given by the U.S. federal government
Claude Brown — author, Manchild in the Promised Land
Ricky Byrdsong — former head basketball coach, Northwestern University; vice president, community affairs, Aon Corp.
Joan Preston Cerstvik — operations manager, Black Issues In
Higher Education
Dr. Patrick Chavis — obstetrician/gynecologist; medical school admission sparked U.S. Supreme Court affirmative action battle
Henry Chauncey — former assistant dean of the faculty, chairman of the Committee on Scholarships, Harvard University; founder and president, Educational Testing Service (ETS); director, College Entrance Examination Board
Dr. Barbara T. Christian — activist; author; editor; educator, University of California-Berkeley; first African American woman granted tenure, full professor, UC-Berkeley
Dr. John Henrik Clarke — writer; activist; spiritualist; geopoliticist; liberation scholar; educator, Hunter College, Cornell University; originator, Afrocentricity
Ray Davis — Washington, D.C.-area student activist; founder, The DC Student Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism (DC SCAR)
Dr. Harold Delaney — mentor; executive vice president, American Association of State Colleges and Universities; special assistant to the chancellor, University of Maryland System; recipient, one of first two Howard University doctoral degrees
